At this point, I'll definitely have to terminate the vote early, since due to the rule change, one story has been removed, and thus deemed ineligible. I'm going to need a mod ruling on the second entry before I deem this competition victorless.
I've only read part of Lake Hiawatha so far. Perhaps the good lieutenant could tell us if there's any underage to watch for.
I removed my own, as a mod and as someone who doesn't want to see the site fried by small minds at the host. I dug the scalpel deep, partly in anger at the situation. But I have no intention of being so ruthless with anyone else, so if he tells us the story is clean, I'm not going to rush out and try to prove him wrong.
That's a hard one to answer. The plot of the story is about a detective and a gangster taking down a child sex trafficking ring. Through the course of the investigation, they find tons of evidence and events that happen either in the background or off-camera. Quick mentions of things that they're investigating but nothing to very little in descriptions. If I were shooting this as a movie, those would shot around or implied but nothing happening on screen. There are two events that occur with victims under 18 but I'm pretty sure the scenes themselves do not list specific ages. The investigation takes place years after the events, and that can be hand-waved a little.
I'm fine with calling the contest a wash at this point. Really pissed off because I've written what should be my masterpiece. I busted out an entire television season in one month. I wrote some of the best stuff of my life, telling a story that I've been thinking about ever since I accidentally named a character with the same last name as another character, then said 'oh shit, I can make this work'. This contest finally gave the kick in the ass I needed to write this.
And the stuff I'm working on that hasn't been posted, the UA stuff is implied or background. There's two scenes where it's either background or the action cuts away before hand. One scene involves our stalwart detectives called to a crime scene where a murder took place. The killers raided the house, put a video of what he did "with the church", then proceeded to slice and dice the perpetrator. In the other, a judge finds out the hard way why not to trust hookers sent over from a church running the largest UA sex trafficking ring on the east coast. None of that needs to be seen on camera.
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